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Recommendations for the Assesment of Quality of Life in Dermatology

Author(s) -

M. Augsutin,

Ulrich Amon,

Monika Bullinger,

Uwe Gieler

Publication year - 2000

Publication title -

dermatology and psychosomatics / dermatologie und psychosomatik

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

eISSN - 1424-0564

pISSN - 1422-9196

DOI - 10.1159/000017510

Subject(s) - dermatology , quality (philosophy) , medicine , philosophy , epistemology

Accessible online at: www.karger.com/journals/dps Fax +49 761 4 52 07 14 E-mail Information@Karger.de www.karger.com Validated questionnaires which reflect both general and disease-specific factors of QOL are desirable. If these are used in prospective studies, they must include adequate sensitivity to change over time. Prior to using a questionnaire, its quality characteristics should be examined for validity, reliability, specificity and sensitivity using the criteria formulated below. There are several validated QOL questionnaires in skin diseases, allergies, wound healing and venous diseases available in English, German and other language versions. Foreign language inventories require re-validation after translation.

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